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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lisp/net/password.el [lexbind]


From: Miles Bader
Subject: [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lisp/net/password.el [lexbind]
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:41:49 -0400

Index: emacs/lisp/net/password.el
diff -c /dev/null emacs/lisp/net/password.el:1.1.4.1
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--- emacs/lisp/net/password.el  Mon Oct 25 04:22:23 2004
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+ ;;; password.el --- Read passwords from user, possibly using a password cache.
+ 
+ ;; Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ 
+ ;; Author: Simon Josefsson <address@hidden>
+ ;; Created: 2003-12-21
+ ;; Keywords: password cache passphrase key
+ 
+ ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+ 
+ ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+ ;; any later version.
+ 
+ ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+ 
+ ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
+ ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+ ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ 
+ ;;; Commentary:
+ 
+ ;; Greatly influenced by pgg.el written by Daiki Ueno, with timer
+ ;; fixes for XEmacs by Katsumi Yamaoka.  In fact, this is mostly just
+ ;; a rip-off.
+ ;;
+ ;; (password-read "Password? " "test")
+ ;; ;; Minibuffer prompt for password.
+ ;;  => "foo"
+ ;;
+ ;; (password-cache-add "test" "foo")
+ ;;  => nil
+ 
+ ;; Note the previous two can be replaced with:
+ ;; (password-read-and-add "Password? " "test")
+ ;; ;; Minibuffer prompt for password.
+ ;; => "foo"
+ ;; ;; "foo" is now cached with key "test"
+ 
+ 
+ ;; (password-read "Password? " "test")
+ ;; ;; No minibuffer prompt
+ ;;  => "foo"
+ ;;
+ ;; (password-read "Password? " "test")
+ ;; ;; No minibuffer prompt
+ ;;  => "foo"
+ ;;
+ ;; ;; Wait `password-cache-expiry' seconds.
+ ;;
+ ;; (password-read "Password? " "test")
+ ;; ;; Minibuffer prompt for password is back.
+ ;;  => "foo"
+ 
+ ;;; Code:
+ 
+ (when (featurep 'xemacs)
+   (require 'run-at-time))
+ 
+ (eval-when-compile
+   (require 'cl))
+ 
+ (defcustom password-cache t
+   "Whether to cache passwords."
+   :group 'password
+   :type 'boolean)
+ 
+ (defcustom password-cache-expiry 16
+   "How many seconds passwords are cached, or nil to disable expiring.
+ Whether passwords are cached at all is controlled by `password-cache'."
+   :group 'password
+   :type '(choice (const :tag "Never" nil)
+                (integer :tag "Seconds")))
+ 
+ (defvar password-data (make-vector 7 0))
+ 
+ (defun password-read (prompt &optional key)
+   "Read password, for use with KEY, from user, or from cache if wanted.
+ KEY indicate the purpose of the password, so the cache can
+ separate passwords.  The cache is not used if KEY is nil.  It is
+ typically a string.
+ The variable `password-cache' control whether the cache is used."
+   (or (and password-cache
+          key
+          (symbol-value (intern-soft key password-data)))
+       (read-passwd prompt)))
+ 
+ (defun password-read-and-add (prompt &optional key)
+   "Read password, for use with KEY, from user, or from cache if wanted.
+ Then store the password in the cache.  Uses `password-read' and
+ `password-cache-add'."
+   (let ((password (password-read prompt key)))
+     (when (and password key)
+       (password-cache-add key password))
+     password))
+ 
+ (defun password-cache-remove (key)
+   "Remove password indexed by KEY from password cache.
+ This is typically run be a timer setup from `password-cache-add',
+ but can be invoked at any time to forcefully remove passwords
+ from the cache.  This may be useful when it has been detected
+ that a password is invalid, so that `password-read' query the
+ user again."
+   (let ((password (symbol-value (intern-soft key password-data))))
+     (when password
+       (fillarray password ?_)
+       (unintern key password-data))))
+ 
+ (defun password-cache-add (key password)
+   "Add password to cache.
+ The password is removed by a timer after `password-cache-expiry'
+ seconds."
+   (set (intern key password-data) password)
+   (when password-cache-expiry
+     (run-at-time password-cache-expiry nil
+                #'password-cache-remove
+                key))
+   nil)
+ 
+ (provide 'password)
+ 
+ ;;; arch-tag: ab160494-16c8-4c68-a4a1-73eebf6686e5
+ ;;; password.el ends here




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